Lying From The Top Down...so you wanted change?

Is there a new life form over at CNN?  Finally someone is making sense out of The Most Trusted Name In News...it makes sense to me! Cafferty Blasts Obama!  Wow!  Biff, bam, blast 'em!  And after you finish watching Cafferty's video check out yet another resurrection over at the New York Times, "Why Arizona Drew A Line".  What's going on with the main stream media?  Have they finally figured out the fallacies of the Left?  ~ Norman E. Hooben

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Lying From The Top Down

see 'change' picture at bottom of page

Cafferty Blasts Obama...ummm does that feel good!

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The following should be a feature on 'Ripley's Believe It Or Not' ...believe it or not the following came from non other than the New York Times!  ummm, does that feel good!

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April 29, 2010

Op-Ed Contributor

Why Arizona Drew a Line

By KRIS W. KOBACH

Kansas City, Kan.

ON Friday, Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona signed a law — SB 1070 — that prohibits the harboring of illegal aliens and makes it a state crime for an alien to commit certain federal immigration crimes. It also requires police officers who, in the course of a traffic stop or other law-enforcement action, come to a “reasonable suspicion” that a person is an illegal alien verify the person’s immigration status with the federal government.

Predictably, groups that favor relaxed enforcement of immigration laws, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, insist the law is unconstitutional. Less predictably, President Obama declared it “misguided” and said the Justice Department would take a look.

Presumably, the government lawyers who do so will actually read the law, something its critics don’t seem to have done. The arguments we’ve heard against it either misrepresent its text or are otherwise inaccurate. As someone who helped draft the statute, I will rebut the major criticisms individually:

It is unfair to demand that aliens carry their documents with them. It is true that the Arizona law makes it a misdemeanor for an alien to fail to carry certain documents. “Now, suddenly, if you don’t have your papers ... you’re going to be harassed,” the president said. “That’s not the right way to go.” But since 1940, it has been a federal crime for aliens to fail to keep such registration documents with them. The Arizona law simply adds a state penalty to what was already a federal crime. Moreover, as anyone who has traveled abroad knows, other nations have similar documentation requirements.

“Reasonable suspicion” is a meaningless term that will permit police misconduct. Over the past four decades, federal courts have issued hundreds of opinions defining those two words. The Arizona law didn’t invent the concept: Precedents list the factors that can contribute to reasonable suspicion; when several are combined, the “totality of circumstances” that results may create reasonable suspicion that a crime has been committed.

For example, the Arizona law is most likely to come into play after a traffic stop. A police officer pulls a minivan over for speeding. A dozen passengers are crammed in. None has identification. The highway is a known alien-smuggling corridor. The driver is acting evasively. Those factors combine to create reasonable suspicion that the occupants are not in the country legally.

The law will allow police to engage in racial profiling. Actually, Section 2 provides that a law enforcement official “may not solely consider race, color or national origin” in making any stops or determining immigration status. In addition, all normal Fourth Amendment protections against profiling will continue to apply. In fact, the Arizona law actually reduces the likelihood of race-based harassment by compelling police officers to contact the federal government as soon as is practicable when they suspect a person is an illegal alien, as opposed to letting them make arrests on their own assessment.

It is unfair to demand that people carry a driver’s license. Arizona’s law does not require anyone, alien or otherwise, to carry a driver’s license. Rather, it gives any alien with a license a free pass if his immigration status is in doubt. Because Arizona allows only lawful residents to obtain licenses, an officer must presume that someone who produces one is legally in the country.

State governments aren’t allowed to get involved in immigration, which is a federal matter. While it is true that Washington holds primary authority in immigration, the Supreme Court since 1976 has recognized that states may enact laws to discourage illegal immigration without being pre-empted by federal law. As long as Congress hasn’t expressly forbidden the state law in question, the statute doesn’t conflict with federal law and Congress has not displaced all state laws from the field, it is permitted. That’s why Arizona’s 2007 law making it illegal to knowingly employ unauthorized aliens was sustained by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

In sum, the Arizona law hardly creates a police state. It takes a measured, reasonable step to give Arizona police officers another tool when they come into contact with illegal aliens during their normal law enforcement duties.

And it’s very necessary: Arizona is the ground zero of illegal immigration. Phoenix is the hub of human smuggling and the kidnapping capital of America, with more than 240 incidents reported in 2008. It’s no surprise that Arizona’s police associations favored the bill, along with 70 percent of Arizonans.

President Obama and the Beltway crowd feel these problems can be taken care of with “comprehensive immigration reform” — meaning amnesty and a few other new laws. But we already have plenty of federal immigration laws on the books, and the typical illegal alien is guilty of breaking many of them. What we need is for the executive branch to enforce the laws that we already have.

Unfortunately, the Obama administration has scaled back work-site enforcement and otherwise shown it does not consider immigration laws to be a high priority. Is it any wonder the Arizona Legislature, at the front line of the immigration issue, sees things differently?

Kris W. Kobach, a law professor at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, was Attorney General John Ashcroft’s chief adviser on immigration law and border security from 2001 to 2003.

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So you wanted change?  ...you got it!

One Chitty Deal! Will Round Two Be A Chitty Deal?

Hello, I am Winston Smith... Pennsylvania Admits Its 1984

I remember long before I had read Orwell's 1984 the talk that went around regarding Big Brother ...more like "big brother is watching" and it was sort of taken with a grain of salt. Now it has been so many years since I've read the book I cannot remember when it was...not sure if it was compulsory reading in college or I just read it at my leisure, but any event Winston Smith (a character in Orwell's 1984) is with us in 2010. The InfoWars commentary below brings back a picture of a sign looked at by Smith... but before I go on about the sign, and maybe it was what I had said just a few days ago that made the connection with the word, "Orwellian". Writing on another post I fielded these words, "I use to think that Bill and Hillary Clinton were the experts in deceit but along comes Obama and now the whole world is turned upside down...right is wrong, no is yes, no tax means more tax, and the list goes on..." and now the printed sign seen by Winston Smith, "WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH". I hope you see the juxtaposition of his sign and my words...quite a similarity to say the least! So you see Winston is me and I am Winston...I couldn't have been more clearer. Right! Meanwhile back at the ranch, we now have a government that openly admits it's Orwellian control over individuals as pointed out in both the commentary and video below. ~ Norman E. Hooben

ps: Is Rahm Emanuel the guy that gives the daily hate speeches in 1984 ...think about it!

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The following from InfoWars.com



Orwellian Big Brother Tax Collection Commercial Airs in Pennsylvania



Keith Farrell - Infowars.com May 2, 2010



We’re not living in an Orwellian Police state; it’s all just a conspiracy theory. However, that’s not what Pennsylvania’s government is telling their citizens. In what can only be described as a mafia-style intimidation tactic, the Pennsylvanian government is telling citizens there that they “know who you are”. The video shows a satellite image zooming in on and individual’s home while a computerized voice informs him that they know who he is and that he owes $4,212 in back taxes. The voice then proceeds to tell him that they can make it easy for him if he pays quickly. The ad then closes with a threatening message: “FIND US BEFORE WE FIND YOU”.

What is more disturbing than the ad itself is that governments are now finding it suitable to announce to us that we are living in an Orwellian police state and that we are all being monitored. “Pay up, or we will find you. We know where you live. We are watching you.” This commercial is a chilling confirmation that we are living in an Orwellian nightmare.

More about the tax amnesty here:

http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/video/Bernie_Dagenais_Tax_Amnesty_04_02_10

Arizona Law ...not perfect, but getting close!

With all the controversy over the immgration legislation recently signed into law by Governor Jan Brewer no one has noticed some of the other aspects of the bill.   Among the many listed in the scorecard (see below) is one that should make all patriotic Americans happy: "Require Ten Commandments to be posted at the Capitol"  Now if we can only get Alabama to do likewise!  (Personally, I would have had every liberal politician memorize the Ten Commandments and have them recite them three times before each session of the legislature ...and that's not an LOL statement, somebody has to teach them right from wrong!) ~ Norman E. Hooben

From the Arizona Daily Star

Session gave green light to conservatives  (Some of this stuff is great! ~ Norm)

Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services | Posted: Sunday, May 2, 2010 

PHOENIX - The stars finally aligned for fiscal and political conservatives this year in the Legislature.

With a Democratic governor now history and a Republican head of state seeking to burnish her conservative credentials, GOP lawmakers pushed through a bevy of favorites on everything from abortion restrictions and illegal immigration to who gets to carry a gun.
And the state's fiscal mess finally gave them a chance to get rid of social programs they never wanted in the first place like KidsCare and full-day kindergarten.
And if it seemed like they were anxious to act, there's a good reason. There's a gubernatorial election in November - and no guarantee a Republican will be in charge next year.
Various measures aimed at illegal immigration, including the comprehensive one expanding police power, got the most national attention. But there were far more sweeping changes in the state's regulation of firearms.
Most notable is that, beginning July 29, virtually any adult can carry a concealed firearm. The need to get a state-issued permit, including the training and background-check requirements, goes away, though that remains an option for those who want one.
That makes Arizona just the third state in the union with such a law, after Alaska and Vermont.
During the six years Democrat Janet Napolitano was governor she vetoed every effort to loosen up gun laws. But when Jan Brewer became governor she made it clear her views were far different.
Just months after taking office, she spoke to the annual convention of the National Rifle Association meeting in Phoenix.
"Over the years, our Arizona frontiersmen always kept a gun under the seat of their wagon," she said. "And, you know, a saloon girl or two were even known to keep a derringer in their garter belt, just in case."
Lawmakers also voted - and Brewer signed bills - to overrule local gun regulations that were more restrictive than state laws. And they even voted to allow Arizonans to make and possess firearms made entirely within the state without complying with federal firearms laws.
Sen. Thayer Verschoor, R-Gilbert, a supporter of the changes, said the signs were all there to push ahead.
"When you've got the votes for something you want to get passed, that's the time to move it," he said.
While many Republicans are happy with the situation, the same can't be said of Democrats.
"There are no checks and balances in the system any more," said Sen. Debbie McCune Davis, D-Phoenix. "When one party controls the Legislature and controls the Governor's Office, the bills that have had a critical review in the legislative process, we've lost that."
Lawmakers also took a few whacks at regulations that had built up over time. They voted to curb the ability of counties to regulate certain kinds of dust pollution. And, in a specific reversal of a Napolitano-era regulation, barred state agencies from enacting any sort of limits on greenhouse gases unless lawmakers approved first.
"I think frustration did create a little bit of a different attitude and atmosphere," said Rep. Jim Weiers, R-Phoenix. "And, yeah, after six years of Napolitano I think people at that point were looking to correct a lot of the wrongs."
That includes the issue of abortion, where Napolitano had vetoed virtually every restriction that reached her desk.
This year, lawmakers approved and Brewer signed new reporting requirements. And they spelled out in law that cities can't offer taxpayer-subsidized health insurance to workers that includes coverage for abortions.
There were other "morality" bills, including one that even spelled out that it's not legal in Arizona to create human-animal hybrids, a provision that led to jokes about mermaids and minotaurs.
"This is the first time we've had both clear, conservative majorities in the House and Senate and a governor who was a conservative, for the most part," said Sen. John Huppenthal, R-Chandler.
That "for the most part" comment reflected some GOP frustration with Brewer for pushing a sales tax increase while opposing business tax cuts. Sen. Carolyn Allen, R-Scottsdale, said that may have forced Brewer to prove in other areas she remains a conservative, what with the governor taking slaps from three primary foes who question her credentials.
"This was an opportunity to strike while the iron is hot," Allen said of the push of items on the conservative agenda.
"Let's do it now because we've got a governor who's running," she explained of the attitude among Republicans. "And she's going to have to go along with us."
Politics was just one reason for the window to change the political direction of the state. The recession created the other, with the state's revenues failing to keep pace with spending.
"They've been waiting for years to get rid of KidsCare," Allen said. The program, which provides nearly free health insurance to the children of working poor, was started under Jane Hull, a Republican governor, who noted the federal government picks up 75 percent of the cost. But many Republicans didn't like it then and used the deficit as an excuse to vote to eliminate it.
They had to reverse that decision, though, because of a provision in new federal health-care legislation that would have cut off U.S. funding to the state.
But there was no such federal impediment to scrapping state-funded full-day kindergarten, a program Napolitano pushed through in 2006.
House Minority Whip Andy Tobin, R-Paulden, said it was just "time for a little common sense."
What's next
Arizona voters will have a chance to make a crucial decision later this month that will affect state government:
May 18 is the statewide vote on Proposition 100, the temporary, 1-cent sales-tax increase that would raise about $1 billion in its first year to help offset cuts to education and public safety.

Scorecard
Here's some of what made it through Arizona's legislative process - and some of what did not.
Public safety/passed:
• Allow virtually any adult to carry a concealed firearm.
• Overturn local gun regulations that are stricter than state laws.
• Bar cities from maintaining records about storage or transfer of firearms.
• Give police more power to question people about their immigration status.
• Create constitutional right to hunt.
• Allow motorcyclists to ride between lanes, but only in Maricopa County and only during a one-year study.
Public safety/failed:
• Ban driving while texting.
• Preclude minors from riding in back of open pickup trucks.
• Allow college faculty to carry firearms.
• Ban license plate covers to hide letters and numbers from photo radar cameras.
• Require booster seats for young children riding in vehicles.
Health/passed:
• Restrict public funds to pay for health insurance that includes abortion coverage.
• Eliminate, then restore funding for Kids Care program.
• Conditionally reinstate eligibility standards for Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System.
• Block state agencies from regulating ""greenhouse gases."
• Impose new abortion reporting requirements.
• Require certain information to be provided to women before they donate eggs for fertility clinics or research.
• Limit human embryonic-stem-cell research and prohibit human-animal hybrids.
• Take control of certain dust regulations from counties.
Health/failed:
• Ban adults from smoking in vehicles when children are present.
Education/passed:
• Impose new reading requirements to move on to fourth grade.
• Create an alternate path for high schoolers to graduate early.
• Ban certain "ethnic studies" programs that "promote resentment toward a race."
• Continue tax credits for scholarships to help students attend private and parochial schools.
• Extend deadline for making donations to qualify for those tax credits.
• Eliminate state funding for full-day kindergarten.
Education/failed:
• Require all schools to provide medically accurate sex education.
• Force schools to determine number of youngsters enrolled who are not legal U.S. residents.
Government/passed:
• Put measure on ballot to create post of lieutenant governor.
• Permit Arizonans to make voluntary donations to run state government.
• Limit ability of cities to impose zoning restrictions against churches.
• Let Parks Board contract with public or private entities to operate state parks.
Government/failed:
• Ask voters to repeal public funding of elections.
• Require voter-approved funding measures to be reapproved every eight years.
• Let lawmakers take money from voter-mandated programs in economic emergencies.
• Require presidential candidates to provide birth certificates.
• Permit continued payday lending beyond June 30.
• Seek 4-year terms for lawmakers.
• Eliminate term limits.
• Tie legislative pay cuts to state employee pay cuts.
• Allow lawmakers to become lobbyists immediately after leaving state government.
Business/passed:
• Permit manufacture of incandescent bulbs in Arizona despite federal ban.
• Let Arizonans have firearms made in the state without complying with federal firearms laws.
• Extend sales and income tax credits for installation of solar energy devices by commercial and industrial users.
• Impose new regulations on reverse mortgages.
• Let landlords pay higher referral fees to tenants.
• Allow Sunday morning sale of alcoholic beverages.
Business/failed:
• Impose surcharge on unemployment insurance.
• Cut corporate income taxes.
• Eliminate state property tax.
• Reduce basis for assessing business property for tax purposes.
Miscellaneous/passed:
• Require Ten Commandments to be posted at the Capitol.
• Provide for exchanging state trust lands for other property to help preserve military reservations.
Miscellaneous/failed:
• Impose longer waiting period before a divorce can be granted.
• Block move by Tohono O'odham Nation to locate casino near Glendale.
• Tax medical marijuana if ballot measure is approved.

An Open Letter To Obama ...updated

There's an email going around that attributes a letter from Mrs Buddy Hacket*...

Sherry Hackett, wife of the late Buddy Hackett, is a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat. I would think that many other Democrats share her position... This was written by Sherry Hackett, Buddy Hackett's widow.

"WE NOTICED" President Obama: Today I read of your administrations' plan to re-define September 11 as a National Service Day. ...  ...  ...  ...

*The author was Faye Parrish.

Originally Posted On Family Security Matters

September 11, 2009

An Open Letter to President Obama on the Occasion of 9/11

Faye Parrish

Dear President Obama,

I read of your administrations plan to re-define September 11th as a National Service Day. Sir, it's time we had a talk.

During your campaign, Americans watched as you made mockery of our tradition of standing and crossing your heart when the Pledge of Allegiance was spoken. You, out of four people on the stage, were the only one not honoring our tradition. We noticed.

During one of your many speeches, Americans heard you say that you intended to visit all 57 states. We noticed.

When Senator McCain leaned over at Ground Zero and gently placed a flower on the memorial, you tossed your flower onto the pile without leaning over. We noticed.  (see video ►►►)

Every time you apologized to other countries for America's position on an issue, we have wondered why you don't share our pride in this great country. When you have heard foreign leaders berate our country and our beliefs, you have not defended us. We noticed.

When your pastor of 20 years damned America and said that 9/11 was "America's chickens coming home to roost" and you denied having heard recriminations of that nature, we wondered how that could be. When you later disassociated yourself from that church and pastor because it was politically expedient to do so, we noticed.

When you announced that you would transform America, we wondered why.

With all her faults, America is the greatest country on earth. Sir, if not for America and the people who built her, you wouldn't be sitting in the White House now. Prior to your election to the highest office in this country, you were a senator from Illinois and from what we can glean from the records available, not a remarkable one. We noticed.

All through your campaign and even now, you have surrounded yourself with individuals who are basically unqualified for the positions to which you appointed them. Worse than that, the majority of them are people who, like you, bear no special affection or respect for this country and her traditions. We noticed.

You are seven months into your term and every morning millions of Americans wake up to a new horror heaped on us by you. You seek to saddle working Americans with a health care/insurance reform package that, along with cap and trade, will bankrupt this nation. We noticed.

We seek, by protesting, to let our representatives know that we are not in favor of these crippling expenditures and we are labeled "un-American," and "racist." We wonder how we are supposed to let you know how frustrated we are. You have attempted to make our protests seem isolated. We noticed.

On September 11, 2001 there were no Republicans or Democrats, only Americans. And we all grieved together and helped each other in whatever way we could. The attack on 9/11 was carried out because we are Americans. And we noticed.

There were many of us who prayed that as a black president you could help unite this nation even more. In seven months you have done more to destroy this nation than anyone since 9/11. You have failed us. We noticed.

September 11th is a day of remembrance for all Americans. You propose to make 9/11 a "National Service Day." While we know that you may not share our reverence for 9/11, we pray that history will report your proposal as what it is...a disgrace.

When Americans come together again, it will be to remove you from office. You have made a mockery of our Constitution and the office that you hold. You have embarrassed and slighted us in foreign visits and policy.

We have noticed all these things. We will deal with you.

Faye Parrish is a concerned American citizen.